Robert Jenrick: Genuine PM potential or just foreshadowing Farage?
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🗓️ 9 July 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
'Some of his views are pretty extreme... I found it pretty sinister'
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Harry Lambert, contributing writer to the New Statesman, talks to Anoosh Chakelian and Will Lloyd about his cover story profiling the Conservative MP and leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick.
Can he really become PM, why is he so popular online and how did his politics get so radicalised?
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| 0:00.0 | The New Statesman. |
| 0:05.5 | Will the next Tory leader be more right-wing than Nigel Farage? |
| 0:09.4 | I'm Anusha Kellyan and this is the New Statesman podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Robert Jenrick's star is on the rise, propelled by his viral videos, hardening opinions |
| 0:17.8 | and the lackluster performance of Conservative leader, Kemmy Badnock. |
| 0:22.2 | Senior Tories amassing behind him leading many, including this publication, to predict he's the |
| 0:26.9 | most likely replacement for the Tory leader in the event of her political demise. |
| 0:31.8 | Harry Lambert has spent the past few weeks getting to know Generic and the people around him |
| 0:35.5 | and has painted an insightful portrait of the man |
| 0:37.9 | in the cover story of this week's New Statesman magazine. And Harry joins me now down the line from |
| 0:42.9 | looks like quite a nice sunny spot in Italy, Harry. Is that right? Yeah, I think I'm on the Umbrian |
| 0:48.3 | Tuscan border, you know, where all great long reads are filed from. Is Robert Jerek there |
| 0:54.0 | in the cupboard? |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.2 | And I'm also joined by the man you just heard there, New Statesman Deputy Editor Will Lloyd, who edited the piece too. |
| 1:04.6 | Hello. I edited some, there was the work of many hands. |
| 1:07.3 | Right. |
| 1:07.7 | You know, when it's a great long read like Harry's one, you know, you have lots of people |
| 1:12.0 | coming in. |
| 1:12.9 | I know. |
| 1:13.6 | I probably said, I don't like this bit and everyone ignored me. |
| 1:16.3 | So there we go. |
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